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The Fly: Zoning Out
Medical marijuana clinics are having a big summer in downtown San Jose, as patients in oversized jean shorts and nightgown T-shirts can be found burning on the sidewalk almost any afternoon.
read moreMagic Budget
Jerry Brown overcomes obstinate Republicans with old-fashioned Democratic trickery.
read moreThe Fly: Nothing for Granted
Police union leader George Beattie isn't shy about attacking his bosses, and SJ City Manager Deb Figone doesn't hesitate to hit back.
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Tax and Save Lives
More than a few eyebrows lifted last week when Councilmember Sam Liccardo proposed raising the city’s sales tax to help fund police and firefighter jobs.
read moreSteal This Burrito
Security breaches are becoming more common for major banks, and one state senator is pushing for more transparency when it comes to notifying customers.
read moreThe Fly: A Comedy of City Errors
The 18th edition of the political comedy show Monday Night Live promised to be “kinder and gentler."
read moreNascar Makes Sonoma Stop
The Bay Area may be diverse, but it has nothing on the cornucopia of characters who attend a day at the raceway for NASCAR.
read moreThe Fly: District 10 Cattle Call
Harry Mavrogenes, Claude Fletcher and Rob Davis are among the slew of candidates eyeing a run for Nancy Pyle's termed-out seat.
read moreTrash Art
At GreenWaste's San Jose facility, which boasts the nation's highest recovery rate among such facilities, garbage is a dirty word.
read moreBye Local?
Longtime South Bay and Peninsula grocers have two options: Go the way of the dodo or adopt new strategies to take on the big guys.
read moreGiants of the South Bay
The San Jose Giants may have lost a star in recent San Francisco send-up Brandon Crawford, but a few notable names—including Barry Zito and Pablo Sandoval—have been seen in the local lineup in recent weeks.
read moreThe Fly: Love Me, Love My Paychck
After asking the city’s workforce to accept 10 percent cuts in compensation to help avoid a fiscal disaster, councilmembers Kansen Chu, Xavier Campos and Nancy Pyle voted Tuesday against docking their own pay.
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Figone to Uncle Sam: ‘No Thanks’
It’s not that Debra Figone doesn’t trust the city council to spend money—it’s just that she doesn’t trust the city council to spend money wisely.
read moreThe New News
The Eight Annual Innovation Journalism Conference brings a new generation of journalists from around the globe to Stanford.
read moreThe Fly: Panic Room
Mayor Chuck Reed and most of the San Jose City Council took a two-hour tongue lashing Tuesday from city employees, retirees, union representatives and even staffers of several state legislators, then voted 8-3 to push forward with Reed’s declaration of “fiscal and public safety emergency.”
read moreLeopard Sharks Under Attack
Scores of leopard sharks have been found thrashing and dying in the shallows of San Francisco Bay from Palo Alto to Marin, as the cause of an apparent epidemic eludes baffled scientists.
read moreEmergency and Response
Mayor Chuck Reed’s announcement last Friday that San Jose is in a “fiscal and public safety emergency” was like a big squirt of gasoline on the smoldering heap of embers that is the city’s relationship with its public-employee unions.
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